Israeli officials denied a report in the Sunday Times of London that an Israeli businessman sentenced to 16 years imprisonment last week for selling chemical weapons agents to Iran had used his contacts in Tehran to locate missing Israeli airman Ron Arad. The officials said all the information Nahum Manbar provided in the early 1990s was proven false and that he had contributed nothing to efforts to locate Arad. Israel maintains that Iran is holding Arad, who bailed out from his fighter plane over Lebanon in 1986.
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